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The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
ACROSS H SEAS.

During the year 1886 thirty-six telegraph
Offices were opened in China.
Leyden university in Holland, is tho rich.
est in tho world. Its real estate alono is said
to be worth Sl,ooo,coO.
Franco is to ask England concerning tho
use TO which an old fund amounting to G5, 500
GOO, paid under tho convention of 1915. has
been put.
Tho Strasburg library, which was DESTROYED
by fire daring tho Franco-Prussinn war, now
contains 6Oo,00O volumes, n largo part of
which have been given to the institution.
A Glasgow merchant has expressed a desire
to present to the queen, as n jubilee gift, a
five ton cheese, made from the milk of $500
Canadian cows. The queen has declined the
gift, us her appetite is not very good now.
Tho French government has conferred on
Nine. Minnie Hauk the title and insignia of
Officer dc rAcademie, on tho recommends
ton of the faculty of tho C~onservatoirc de
Ml,sique. This distinction is in recognition
of her services to French musical art by i'll
Producing a number of French operas, among
them "Carmen, " "Nancn" and "Mignon," into
several cities of Europe and America. This
is the first time an American artist has been
thus honorcd by the French government.
Pastcur has another rival. A Dutch family
at Peize, Holland, is said to DO possessed of a
secret remedy for %hydrophobia. Tho Oldest
inhabitant cannot r~ecollect a single case of
h%ydrophobia in that neighborhood for the last
seventy years. This mysterious drug has
been known to the family for over 100 years
and has been successfully applied to men,
dogs, cats and cattle. 1t has a soothing influ-
cnce, also, on violent lunutics Its harmless
ness is shown by the fact that when a double
dose was administered to q man who had boon
bitten by a mad dog ho simply fell into u pro.
found sleep, from which he awoke without a
trace of either drug or madness.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
SCIENTIFIC T

An English food inspector, Mr.. James Bell,
finds that horse flesh and beef cannot be nos.
itively distinguished by external appearance,
but that the fat is a reliable test. The horse
fat is fluid at a temperature of 20 degs., and
has q specific gravity of 100 dogs. of about
90S.7 while the fat of beef melts at ITO to 100
dogs, and is considerably lighter. Tho low
melting point of tho fat will show when sau.
sages are made from horse meat.
The Sideral Messenger for March contains
an article by DIR. S. V. Clevenger on the
optical appearance of comets. He holds that
"comets AFRO a%ggregations, usually spherical
or spheroidal, of relatively tenuous and yari.
able dcnsities, and their nuclei and tails are
optical appearances only" According to his
view the first or telescope (globularl appear.
anco of the comet is the only real one, and all
the rest is simply phenomenal to an extent
which some other people might feel justified
in calling delusive.
A writer in The Springfield Republican
claims to have found out tho useful point Of
tho mosquito. He says: II found out tho real
mission of tho pest by putting a lot of the
%wrigglcrs into a hogshead of water, md fill
ing another hogshead into which no ~wrigglers
were put. Tho second body Of water soon
became foul, while the first remained sweet,
showing that our swamps would more often
become sources of disease If they were not
infested with mosquitoes"
Tho Engineering News, in the course of a
long article on the substitution of steam
heat for stove heat in railway cars, shows
that no more than 2115 to 3l15 per cent of the
locomotives supply of steam is required for
heating the average train. 1t adds that this
quantity can be obtained without reducing
the load, increasing tho heating surface, de-
creasing the speed or decreasing tho loss by
radiation. 1t is only necessary to push the
fires q littlo when the locomotive is on a
Lowell or down q grade, and to uso steam that
can DO spared whilo the train is resting at
stations,
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
r N ARTISTS.

The third annua art exhibition Of the In.
dlanapols Art association will open on
April II.
Lot Flannery, the Washington sculptor, is
completing a bust of Gen. Logan, which was
modelled twenty-one years ago.
The pupils in the weaving department. of
the Philadelphia school of industrial art have
already this year sold over S4CO worth of de-
signs to Philadelphia manufacturers.
The $1,000 to secure the "Arethusa" of
George Fuller for the museum of fine arts in
Boston, has been raised, and the picture will
now be the permanent property of the
museum.
A bill has been introduced in tho North
Carolina legislature to erect a monument to
the memory of Nathaniel Macon, who never
would allow his portrait to be taken, and
who left explicit directions that no tombstone
should DO placed at his grave.
Mr.. Niehaus' statue of Ex-Governor Allen,
OF Ohio, which is to he placed in the Capitol
ut Washington, is finished ut Rome. 1t is
seven feet high, and represents its subject
standing, his right hund grasping his coat
lapel, and his left holding q roll of manu.
script.
Mr.. Norman w. Dodge, of New York, has
instituted n prize of $500 to be awarded ut
each annual exhibition of the academy Of
design for the best picture painted in tho
United States by a woman. All women who
exhibit, without limitation of age or national
lty, will be eligible to compete for this prize.
"A new form of art has been evolved by w.
Hamilton Gibson, which he calls Smoke pict-
urcs." They arc made by the smoke of q gas
lame on white cardboard or paper. AT first
there is perhaps only n suggestion of what tho
picture is to be, but after n sufficient coating
of SCOT has accumulated the material is
manipulated with n brush or some other i'm
plement until all the details are worked out.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
PHYSIOLOGY AND HYGIENE.
Facts, Theories and Experiences in Every
Dav Life.

Facts. Theories and Experiences in Every
Day Life.
DR.. Backus, in n paper On chronic coll
stiration, read before a medical society in
Canada, divided the treatment for this very
COMMON complaint into hygienic, dietetic,
medicinal and mechanical. Under hygienic, he
referred to exercise, walking and riding,
massage of the abdomen and general massage
in persons unable to take active exercise, and
bathing, us conducive to q permanent cure.
Under dictctics, he forbade tho excessive
uSc of meat or n too nutritious diet, and
advised more vegetables, fruit and coarse
breads. Some people took too little fluids,
and Il more liberal supply of water frequently
relieved them. In the medicinal treatment of
these cases, he thought usually a combination
of drugs in small doses acted better than
a single one. He enumerated succinctly the
Indications for the more important purga-
tivcs. He had found, in some of the most
obstinate cases of constipation in children,
cod liver oil act with great satisfaction.
He had not found cascara sagrada to be
Il specific. ~ pill he found useful in many
cases is one containing sulphatc of iron, aloes,
c%o!ocynth, lux vomica and belladonna.
Under the last heading he noticed the various
encmas and suppositories useful in coll
stipation. In all cases, patients must he
urged to solicit Il motion of the bowels ut the
same hour daily; the persistent practice of
this rule would cure the majority of cases.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
Fashion in Grnyestones.

II suppose there are fashions in grave
stones as well as in anything else9" T..
Certainly there are. The heavy style,
such as ono used to SEQ universally in bury
ing grounds up to twenty years ago, is be-
coming antiquated and going out of fashion.
What takes now is the light, airy kind of
work, with graceful outlines, and of fine ma
terial. Angels, small statues after the Greek,
doves and fancy figures are now most in
vogue. Next to them there is the rough
style-just the hewn rock, showing the I'M
polished surface. That seems to be the best
liked by mourners of a serious, contempla-
tive turn OF mind, while sentimental people
prefer the other style"
"As to tho degrees of grief now," 1t was
asked, did your experience teach you that
young people sorrow more visibly and cxpen-
sively over their dead than do mourners of
sedate age7"
"From my W experience I should judge
that aged people are more apt to spend their
money freely in fine tombstoncs than Younger
persons. 1t may DO that young folks feel it
as much as older Ones, but they haven't got
the money to spend, you see, as q rule. l
know often have trouble enough collecting
my bills from such people, even if it's for
nothing heavier than q little baby angel.
Widows, l must say, as a rule are good Gus
toners; widowers, not nearly so much. And
that's as true of the young as of tho old, per-
haps even truer of the young ones"
"Do widows who have buried successive
husbands show just as poignant grief-as OK
pressed on to~mbstones-on the demise of their
second or third husband as OH that of the
flrst!"
swell, now, that's a ticklish question to
ask" replied the artist. II couldn't be sure
Of it; still, if I can judge from what I've
seen, 1 should say that the widows grief be-
comes all the stronger on putting her second
or third one under the sod.'-Ncw York
Mail and Express.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
Treatment of Spring Lambs.

After the lamb is q few days old, if
thought necessary, it may be taught to
suck some warmed swcetened cows milk,
and any help to its growth, in the shape
of extra food, will be useful. There is
danger, however, of over feeding u young
lamb, which may be worse than under
feeding it, and caution ought to be cxer-
clsed m this respect; no more should be
attempted than to encourage q thrifty
growth. After the lamb is about one
month old it may be taught to lick some
bran, with a little salt mixed with it, or a
little siftcd oatmeal. AS q rule, it will be
safer to depend OF cnriching and increas-
ing the ewes milk rather than to force
the lamb to swallow food which it's stom-
ach is not prepared yet to completely di-
gest.
1t is of importance to prevent the lambs
from being annoyed and depleted of their
blood by ticks or other vcrmin. To this
end the ewes should have been dipped in
the fall to rid them of the ticks. If, how
ever, a few appear on the lambs, try hand
picking; in case the pests are too numer.
Gus, the lambs must be dipped.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
Remembering the Signal Flags.

Thousands of people every morning look
up to the signal flags on the public build
ings in the cities to know the forecasts of
weather for the day, but to great num-
bers they are only IN evaporation, be-
cause the Interpretation of the red and
blue moon and star and crescent are COIL
t~inually slipping from mind, and the
memorandum card is always getting mis-
laid. An easy method of fixing the read
ings in mind has been suggested by an OK
change, and is as follows: Red, the color
of fire, means noun of heat; blue, the
color Of the sky, amount of moisture; and
in each case that figures containing most
surface means most in quantity. Thus,
the rcd moon means much hcat-risinE
temperatures; red star, less Manifestations
airy temperatures; red crescent, less heat
lower temperature. The blue moon is
much moisturc-gcneral rain or SHOW;
blue star, less moisturc-local rain or
snow; blue crescent, least moisturc-fair
weather. The ''cold wave" is easily re-
mcmbcrcd without mncmonics.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.
Catherine owen Talks About Regular
Reception Days.

Catherine owen Talks About Regular
Reception Days.
Catherine Owen, in Good Housekeeping.
urges every woman who has any but very in
innate friends, to havo an afternoon in the
week to receive calls. Many women of wealth
and social position have adopted tho fashion,
perhaps at first because it was q fashion, but
there is n great deal more than that to be
said in its favor, and it is to the busy woman,
who has every moment occupied with house
hold duties md yet keeps her hold on social
life, who will find it q saving of time and n
means of snatching some passing pleasure and
repose from what otherwise is an occasional
vcNation, whom the custom would help most.
The advantage of a receiving day is often
fully understood, but women who make no
social pretension shrink from it for fear of
being thought "airy" or aping fashion; but it
is just these women who might look OH it as
all absolute duty to themselves and q real
Kindness to their friends.
How many of us do not know what it is to
have an acquaintance, who is both agreeable
and would be welcome, call on us just as we
arc doing something that we are norvously
anxious to finish, or that requires our un-
divided attention; fortunate if we are not in
tho middle of some delicate cooking that will
spoil by leaving it. There are then but two
things to do-ask your visitor right into the
kitchen or work room, or leave everything
and go to her just as we are; anything is bet
ter than to keep her waiting. If wo do tho
first she will know that sEe has just como at
the wrong time, ard feel that she is intruding
i'll spite of your assurance that you wish her
to stay, and i'll fact if you go OF busily with
your occupation you really cannot enjoy her
visit, while if you leave everything, you will
show the marks perhaps of being very busy,
and your mind will wander to the oven that
was just right and is now cooling, or the work
that you wanted to finish SO specially to-day;
i'll any case, you do not enjoy tho visit, and
your visitor will feel that you havc been very
polite, but that she might have chosen q bet
ter time.
By having q ebay" you do away with all
this, and you save time. You know the after
noon or evening when your friends will call,
and you arrange accordingly. You need lose
tim only for that day; you will have no ex-
acting work i'll hand; you will be dressed md
ready, and stocking darning or small mend
ing, although not parlor work, may be left 10
pick up, and can be put away without mental
anxiety when visitors arrive. If you have
made it known that you nave given up this
day (and you can pleasantly also give your
%reasons) you may nave several calls at one
time, while otherwise each would have come
separately and separately taken your time.
Your callers will probably enjoy meeting
each other, and you, with your mind quite
free, will be at your best.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
Remedy for Hog Cholera.

The Southern Cultivator some time ago
published q communication from u well
known planter of Calhoun county, Gcor-
gia, telling how lie had checked the raw
ages of cholera among his swine by
mixing with their food Il moderate guam
tity of soda. A recent issue of The Guilt
vator contains n letter from w. X.
Crosswell, Marionville, S. c., who tried the
remedy. For ten days after the cholera
made its appearance he fed his hogs 4
liberal quantity Of soda and salt, mixed
with ground food, twice a day, after that
giving occasional doses. He claims that
the sick animals recovered and he has not
had a case of cholera since.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
The tIupa Indians.

Lieut.. Ray, U. $. ~, gives in Science an
autographs sketch of the IIupa Indians as
they appear in the IIupa reservations in
n%orthwes, California, on tho lower Trinity
river. Tllesc Indians nearly all belong to tho
Pacific cost branch of the great Athahascan
stock, represented by the Kulrhin and Tinne
on the roi;ii, and by the Apache and Navajo
OH tho south. Before these aborigincs were
torroi'i.ri iy the white miners and fishermen
tAes' w'i', in The laisnageof Stephen Powers,
t!i' i:"i'.;,!is OF California. Although they
have hc"n ra'mrl Down TO the normal stag
nation OF " government reservation, there
remains a great dead @: tho old art and civiliZa-
ti":l anon; them. They arc really in the
n"ni!''li' -. and tell much about the way in
wlli'h FrenrImcn of tho Robenhausiun epoch
lived.
Tie story Of their daily life is blocked out
in the statements that their mountain homes
nre i'll tho midst of giant red woods, their
streams are the resorts of salmon and around
them grow the materials for the finest textiles
aid clothing.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
STAGE F

Chicago museums have n convention of fat
families and u congress of red headed mil
liners.
Miss. Bessie Cleveland, q second cousin of
the president, isplaying in "a Tripto Africa"
through the southern cities.
S. G. Pratt, well known as n composer of
instrumental music, has recently produced an
original grand opera, Lucille" i'll Chicago.
Johann Strauss latest comic opera has not
yet been sung in Vienna, but Mr.. Heinrich
Conried has already secured tho right to pro-
duce it there. "The Simpleton" is its title,
and it will soon be sung ut the Theatre an der
Wien.
The death of Mrs. Henry Marston in Lon
don at the advanced age of II leaves Mrs.
Stirling and Mrs. Kelley as the Oldest living
actresses in England. The latter, however,
has not appeared professionally for some
years.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
Unwholesome Food and Drink.

Bolted flour mixed with bran, such as is
often palmed off on consumers rs "Graham'
flour, is fit only for t~hc.stomachs of herbivor-
Gus animals.
Immature meat, such as bob veal, is un-
wholesome not only because it contains no
nourishment, but because of its extreme in
digestibility.
Borax, boracic and salycilic acids, which
are sometimes added to milk to prevent sour
ing, irritate the kidneys and dispose to
I9right's disease.
Tho idea that water purifics itself by frecz-
ing is prevalent and deep rooted, but GRO
neous. 1t has led to tho use of leo from ponds
whose water no one would think Of drinking.
People, especially females, who drink
largely of tea and still more when they do
not eat sufficient food, suffer from many ner-
VOWS troubles, as we'll as palpitation md neu-
ralgia, and present all the phenomena Of
nerve exhaustion, says DR.. Fothergin.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07

If while tho disk is revolving rapidly its
periphery is brought into light contact with
the edso of Il piece of paper, the successive
taps of the t'cth of tn" disk upon the paper
produce IL shlill, musical sound, wllicl, varies
pitch according to the speed of the disk.
Such II disk mounted on IL Shaft and rcvolvcd
rapidly is known as Savart's wheel.
IL is afrcitained by these experiments that
regular vibrations Of sufficient frequency
produce mlsiral sounds, and that conclusions,
irregular vibrations and regular vibrations
having Il slow rate produce only noises.
Savart determined that the lowest note ap-
prc'iaile 10y the ear is produced by from
seven To eight complete vibrations per second
anil the highest 10y $4,000 complete vibrations
per second,
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
po,nts About silos and Ens,larc.

THe cnsi1agc systcm IS becoming more
popular every day. The expense of con-
structing q silo is not necessarily great.
Building it of stone, cutting or chatting
the material, putting it in as hastily rs
possible and heavily weighing it-all
these have been found not to he absolutely
necessary. a silo car be built of lumber,
the material put in slowly, each layer two
or three feet deep being allowed TO heat,
and the whole can he covered so as to
keep out the air. The results will be sat-
isfactory.
If you want to make MI experiment take
n hogshcad, pack it with green forage and
heavily weight it. The chief points TO he
observed are exclusion of air and soliuity
of foundation.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
Eattcninr Eject of Water.

While excessive imbibing of very cold or
iced water is not to be commended, especially
when one is very warm, there is reason to be
lcve. according to recent medical authority,
that the unlimited use of pure spring water is
not only very conducive to health but has n
tendency to favor fullncss and roundncss of
the body. Whether this results froma better
action OF the part of the digestive, assimula-
tive and d%cpurativc functions-owing to the
internal cleanliness or flushing of tho hu-
man sewers by large quantities of water, or
whether water has n specific action in pro-
ducing the %fullness, is not known; but OBJ
scrvation confirms as n fact that tho free use
of wator has a fnttening effect.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
animal, much collie and Indigestion would


The giving Of water is not less import
ant than feeding. During a journey, and
especially in hot weather, the team should
be allowed to drink at every opportunity
If they will. But Mt no time should they
be allowed to fill themselves with water.
-Four quarts is enough at any time, unless
a long distance has been driven. Then
four quarts is enough for the first draft.
At the end of twenty minutes each horse
should be allowed a pailful if he will
drink it. Generally he will not do so, but
if allowed he may take two or three pail
fuls Mt the first draft, and always to lis
damage. Tho water drank does not re.
main in the stomach. 1t passes into the
large intestine and thence to the bowels,
being taken up along the passage by the
absorbcnts. If large quantities of water
are given, the horse swcats or stales pro-
fuscly, and the system is depleted. Collie,
indigestion and other complications aris-
ing from improper watering and feeding
kill more horses than all other causes
combined
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
WHAT TRUE MERIT WILL DO.

The unprecedented sale OF Boschec's German
Syrup within Il few years. has astonished the
world. 1t is without doubt the safest and best
remedy ever discovered for the speedy and cifcc.
tual cure of Coughs. Colds and the scycrest Lung
troubles. II acts on an entirely different principle
from the usual prescriptions given by Physicians
asit does not dry upa Cough and leave The disease
still in the system. but on the contrary removes
The cause of tn" trouble, heals the parts affected
and leaves them in Il purely healthy condition. \
bottle kept in the house for use when the diseas; :
make their appearance, will save doctors bills and
Il long spell of serious Illness. :! trial will corr
vince yon of these facts. 1t is positively sold by
all druggists and general dealers i'll the land.
Price, IS cts. large bottles. Apr. 30-1y.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
Glaciers in tho Alps.

According to Professor Heino, of Zurich,
there are l ,l55 glaciers i'll the Alps, of which
249 arc moro than $500 metres in length.
The glaciers are distributed as follows: In
Switzerland, III; in Austria, 1852; in France,
III; and i'll Italy, IS. The largest glacier is
the Aletsch, which stretches over "a kilo-
metres. The total surface of the glaciers is
estimated at 1000 square kilometres, of which
the glaciers in Switzerland alone furnish
1,S40 square kilometres.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
ornamentino a Dinner Table.

A new way of ornamenting q dinner table
is to lay upon it a mirror SO large that only a
wide enough margin is left for the plates and
glasses of the guests. The mirror is round,
square, oblong or oval, according to the
shape of the table. On tho edge is q border
of flowers, which must be Of one kind only.
At a recent dinner given in this city the i'm
mcnsc mirror was placed on n cover of yell
low silk and surrounded by tulips of the same
hue. On the plateau itself were rows of sill
yer candclabra with yellow candles and
shades.-Clara LAMA in New York Mail and
Express.
The Dickinson press., 1887-05-07
Stately Bows and courtesics.

The custom of hand shaking-and q very
good, hospitable custom it was-has Of lato
years been more or less abandoned among
mere acquaintance in New York society.
There has been of late years q movement
toward the stately BOWS and courtesies of the
past. A lady silently courtesics when intro
duccd, and a gentleman makes a deep bow.
If, however, a lady or gentleman extends a
hand at time of introduction or, indeed, at
any time, innate politeness will prompt that
it be taken cordially. 1t is q safe rule to
always respond to the greeting in the keynote
Of tho river